Commercial Institutions & Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval & Early Modern WorldAn interdisciplinary conference presented by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY)September 24-25, 2010

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References:Images featured in the program are from Garcia de Orta, Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India

(Lisbon, 1895; London, 1913, repr.), pl. 6 cinnamon, pl. 11 cloves, pl. 14 nutmeg, and pl. 20 pepper. Used with permission of Special Collections, Binghamton University Libraries.

Table of ContentsSchedule at a Glance ........................................................................................................Page 4

Conference Program:

Friday Afternoon Panels ...................................................................................................Page 5

Friday Evening Keynote Address ......................................................................................Page 7

Friday Evening Banquet ...................................................................................................Page 7

Saturday Morning Panels .................................................................................................Page 8

Saturday Plenary Panel .....................................................................................................Page 9

Saturday Afternoon Panels .............................................................................................Page 10

Saturday Evening Keynote Address .................................................................................Page 12

Saturday Evening Banquet .............................................................................................Page 12

Banquet Entertainment ..................................................................................................Page 13

Additional Information:

Mediaevalia Call for Submissions ...................................................................................Page 14

Trade Institute Calendar of Events, 2010-2011 ...............................................................Page 15

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and Acknowledgements ..................................Page 16

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Schedule at a GlanceFriday, September 24:1:00 – 6:00 p.m..................................................................................................................Registration & Refreshments

University Union West, Third Floor1:30 – 3:30 p.m. ...............................................................................................................Session 1 – Concurrent Panels

University Union West, Rooms 324 and 3253:30 – 3:45 p.m...........................................................................................................................................Coffee Break

University Union West, Third Floor3:45 – 5:45 p.m.................................................................................................................Session 2 – Concurrent Panels

University Union West, Rooms 324 and 3255:45 – 6:00 p.m...........................................................................................................................................Coffee Break

University Union West, Third Floor6:00 – 7:30 p.m.....................................................................................................................................Keynote Address

Fine Arts Building, Room 2588:00 – 10:00 p.m. ..................................................................................................................................Banquet Dinner

Chenango Room

Saturday, September 25:8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. ................................................................................................................................... Registration

Fine Arts Building, Grand Corridor8:00 – 9:00 a.m. ................................................................................................... Continental Breakfast & Book Display

Fine Arts Building, Grand Corridor9:00 – 11:00 a.m. ..............................................................................................................Session 3 – Concurrent Panels

Fine Arts, Rooms 209 and 21211:00 – 11:15 a.m. ............................................................................................................. Coffee Break & Book Display

Fine Arts Building, Grand Corridor11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. ........................................................................................................... Session 4 – Plenary Panel

Fine Arts Building, Room 25812:45 – 1:45 p.m. ..............................................................................................................Buffet Lunch & Book Display

Fine Arts Building, John Arthur Café1:45 – 3:45 p.m.................................................................................................................Session 5 – Concurrent Panels

Fine Arts Building, Rooms 209 and 2123:45 - 4:00 p.m. ................................................................................................................. Coffee Break & Book Display

Fine Arts Building, Grand Corridor4:00 – 6:00 p.m.................................................................................................................Session 6 – Concurrent Panels

Fine Arts Building, Rooms 209 and 2126:00 – 6:15 p.m.................................................................................................................. Coffee Break & Book Display

Fine Arts Building, Grand Corridor6:15 – 7:45 p.m.....................................................................................................................................Keynote Address

Fine Arts Building, Room 2588:00 – 10:30 p.m. ..................................................................................................................................Banquet Dinner

Tau Club Room

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Friday, September 24Registration & Refreshments: 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Session 1 (Concurrent Panels): 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Spiritual, Philosophical, and Literary Positions on Trade and Merchants

Chair: Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University Location: University Union West, Room 324

Claire Schen, SUNY Buffalo ��������������� ����������������� ����������������

Matthieu van der Meer, Syracuse University Trade in Philosophy: Commercial Metaphors in the Work of Nicolas of Cusa and the Medieval Market in Ancient Books

Evelyne Oliel-Grausz, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne Revisiting the Nexus between the Early Modern Sephardi kehillah and Economy

Christian Beck, University of Central Florida Chaucer’s Trade: Florentine Guild Culture and English Literary Production

Financial Institutions: Debt, Credit, and Trust

Chair: Dennis Romano, Syracuse University Location: University Union West, Room 325

Jeffrey Miner, Stanford University Collective Enterprise, Communal Debt: Public Finance and Trade in Late Medieval Genoa

Jeroen Puttevils, Research Foundations Flanders, University of Antwerp Relational and Institutional Trust in Merchant Guilds in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: A Comparative Perspective

Ariel Rubin, Columbia University Going Under in a Sinking City: City Regulation of Bad Debts and Bankruptcy in Sixteenth-Century Leiden

Michael Toch, Hebrew University At the Origins of the Commercial Revolution?: Re-Dimensioning the Contribution of Medieval Jewish Credit

Coffee Break: 3:30 - 3:45 p.m.

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Friday, September 24Session 2 (Concurrent Panels): 3:45 – 5:45 p.m.

Port City Affairs in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Chair: Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Location: University Union West, Room 324

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Stephanie Nadalo, Northwestern University Negotiating Freedom: Cultural Mediators in Livorno’s Slave Trade

Zuzana Stastna, McMaster University Women’s Trade in a Mediterranean Metropolis: Port Life and Prostitution in Seventeenth-Century Marseille

Philip J. Hnatkovich, The Pennsylvania State University The Narrow Road: Anglo-Huguenot Community in the Western Channel, 1558-1628

Textual and Visual Mediations of the Cross-Cultural Encounter

Chair: John Chaffee, Binghamton University Location: University UnionWest, Room 325

Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia Translating Treasure in Early Modern China

Ittai Joseph Tamari, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich Elia Levita and the Development of an International Market in Jewish Manuscripts and Printed Books

Joseph Stanley, Binghamton University Statistical Erudition and Cultural Assimilation: Medieval Pratiche della mercatura and Trans-Mediterranean Trade

Elizabeth Sutton, University of Northern Iowa ��$��������&������������������������������$���'���������������

Coffee Break: 5:45 - 6:00 p.m.

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Keynote Address6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

“International Luxury Products: Scarcity, Value and Uniqueness”

By Professor Paul Freedman, Yale University Introduced by Marilynn Desmond, Binghamton University

Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 258

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8:00 – 10:00 p.m. Location: Chenango Room

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Saturday, September 25Registration: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Breakfast & Book Display: 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Session 3 (Concurrent Panels): 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

Merchant Protocols and Market Transactions

Chair: Andrew Walkling, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 209

Susannah F. Baxendale, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Business Partnerships and Patrimony in Late Trecento Florence: An Examination of the Alberti Nuovi

Kenneth R. Hall, Ball State University Cross-Cultural Commercial Competition on the Vietnam Coastline in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Dennis Romano, Syracuse University The Art of the Deal: Buying and Selling in Late Medieval Italian Cities

Meisha T. Lohmann, Binghamton University “On the Pavement, Thinking about the Government”: The Corpus Cristi Cycle and the Emergence of Municipal Merchant Power in York

Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Exchanges around the Mediterranean

Chair: Travis Bruce, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 212

Bernard Dov Cooperman, University of Maryland Jewish and Non-Jewish Courts: Jurisdiction over Commerce between Tunis and Livorno in the Seventeenth Century

Isabel O’Connor, Indiana University, South Bend Muslims Navigating New Markets in Late Thirteenth-Century Spain

Russell Hopley, Bowdoin College Aspects of Trade in the Western Mediterranean during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Perspectives from Tunisian fatwas and State Correspondence

Coffee Break & Book Display: 11:00 - 11:15 a.m.

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Session 4 (Plenary Panel): 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

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Chair: Jonathan Karp, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 258

Roxani Margariti, Emory University The “India Book” and the Indian Ocean Trade

Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania A Mediterranean Society and Mediterranean Trade

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Lunch & Book Display: 12:45 - 1:45 p.m.

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Saturday, September 25Session 5 (Concurrent Panels): 1:45 – 3:45 p.m.

Transient Spaces: Inns, Hostels, and the Marketplace

Chair: Nancy Um, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 209

David Celetti, University of Padua The Venetian Fondaci (an Institution for Long-distance Trade): Economic, Social, and Architectural Aspects (Twelfth to Sixteenth Century)

Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro, Dartmouth College Homes Beyond the Domestic: The Inn and the City Gate in Seventeenth-Century Madrid

Giada Damen, Princeton University The Ruga di Oresi: An International Marketplace in Sixteenth-Century Venice

Wan-Chuan Kao, CUNY Graduate Center Hotel Tartary: Marco Polo, Yams, and the Biopolitics of Population

Contract Enforcement in Cross-Cultural Perspective:

Jewish, Christian, & Muslim Legal Environments in the Early Modern Period

Chair: Karen-edis Barzman, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 212

Cátia Antunes, University of Leiden Prosecuting the Persecutor: Commercial Contracts, Jews, and Inquisitors, 1580-1640

Ghislaine Lydon, University of California, Los Angeles Contracting Trust: Enforcement Mechanisms in Early Modern Saharan Trade

Francesca Trivellato, Yale University Foxes and Hedgehogs?: A Research Agenda for the Historical Study of Cross-Cultural Trade

Coffee Break & Book Display: 3:45 - 4:00 p.m.

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Session 6 (Concurrent Panels): 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Eurasian Trade Networks: Maritime Channels and Landed Superhighways

Chair: Rifa’at Abou-El-Haj, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 209

Alan M. Stahl, Princeton University Where the Silk Road Met the Wool Trade: Italian and Muslim Merchants in Tana in the Late Middle Ages

Angeliki Tzavara, Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (CNRS) Those Who Followed on from Marco Polo: The Venetian Merchants in Asia (Fourteenth to Fifteenth Century)

David Jacoby, Hebrew University Late Medieval Silk: Cross-Cultural Exchange in a Globalized Economy

Matthew P. Romaniello, University of Hawai 'i Exasperating Exchanges: Russia’s Commercial Regulations between Europe and Asia

On the Governance of Trade: Cities, States and Merchant Networks

Chair: Barbara Abou-El-Haj, Binghamton University Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 212

Céline Dauverd, University of Colorado at Boulder Trade Diaspora in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Colonies in Naples and Constantinople

Rowan Dorin, Harvard University Of Commerce and Coattails: The Use of Third–Party Institutions in Twelfth- and Thirteenth–Century Mediterranean Trade

Jerzy Mazur, Binghamton University Jewish Trade Networks in Central Europe, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century

Christopher Beck, Fordham University Double Edged Words: Reprisal, Letter of Marque, and the Protection of Trade in Late Medieval Marseille

Coffee Break & Book Display: 6:00 - 6:15 p.m.

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Keynote Address6:15 – 7:45 p.m.

“Making Ends Meet: The Emporia of Monsoon Asia

and the Newcomers from Europe”

By Professor Leonard Blussé, University of Leiden Introduced by John Chaffee, Binghamton University

Location: Fine Arts Building, Room 258

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Banquet EntertainmentFriday Evening Banquet: September 24

“Medieval Middle Eastern Merchant: A Dramatic

Monologue for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

An original poem composed for the Trade Institute by Martin Bidney, Professor Emeritus, English, Binghamton University

Read by Andrew Scholtz, Classics, Binghamton University

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Saturday Evening Banquet: September 25

Musica Mediterranea

A Program of Mediterranean Music presented by MignardaThis after-dinner program, which concludes the conference, highlights music from the cusp between the Medieval

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fresh and engaging approach to historical music has set a new standard for interpretation, authenticity

and musicianship. They have produced seven critically acclaimed CDs and a series of editions

of historical music for voice and lute. Mignarda’s CD, Divine Amarillis, was awarded the 2009 JPF

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MediaevaliaMediaevalia is now accepting submissions for its 2011 volume, which will be dedicated to topics concerning '��� ���� ����_����������>�������<�"$�� �?�`���� ����x���������" ��Mediaevalia provides a forum for

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Contents

In Vino Veritas: Introduction

Dana E. Stewart

Wine and Death: Carpe Diem or Vanitas?

John Varriano

Medieval and Renaissance Wines: Taste, Dietary Theory, and

How to Choose the Right Wine (14Th

– 16Th

Centuries)

Kathryn McKinley

Sacred Commodity, Commodifying the Sacred: Reckoning with

Wine in Late Medieval French Culture

Francesca Canadé Sautman

The Case of De Vinis, A Pseudo-Arnaldian Treatise on Wine

and Medicine

Azélina Jaboulet-Vercherre

Rabelais and Le Vin Divin

Florence Weinberg

The Poisoned Chalice: Wine as a Vehicle of Death in Women

Beware Women, The Tragedy of Mariam, and Hamlet

Kathleen McGlone

Yayin Kodesh: Perspectives on Wine in Isaac (Fernando)

Cardoso's Las Excelencias De Los Hebreos, 1679

Bruce S. Gartner

Wine Should Taste Like Wine: Drinking at Court in Early

Modern Italy

Karen-edis Barzman

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CEMERS Trade Institute

Calendar of Events – Fall 2010Friday and Saturday, September 24 and 25

“Negotiating Trade. Commerical Institutions and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Medieval and Early Modern World.”

Wednesday, October 13, at 12 noon in the University Art Museum

Robert Finlay – Professor of History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville“Porcelain Stories: from China to the World.”

Wednesday, October 27, at 12 noon in the University Art Museum

John Guy – Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art“Dress and Authority in the Courts of Southeast Asia.”

Wednesday, November 3, at 12 noon in LN-1106

F. Regina Psaki – The Giustina Family Professor of Italian Language and Literature, University of Oregon, and Visiting Professor of Italian, The Pennsylvania State University

“The Book’s Two Fathers: Marco, Rustico, and the Making of Marco Polo’s Description of the World.”

Wednesday, November 10, at 5:15 p.m. in LN-1106

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**CEMERS Co-Sponsored Event**Thursday, November 11, at 4:30 p.m. in the Anderson Center Reception Room

Ronald J. Mellor – Phi Beta Kapa Visiting Scholar, Professor of Greek and Roman History, UCLA“East Meets West: Encounter along the Ancient ‘Silk Road’.”

(Lecture presented by Binghamton University's Phi Beta Kapa Chapter.)

In Spring 2011 the Trade Institute will include a workshop on commercial challenges related to border-crossing and a symposium on global silk and cotton (the latter co-organized by faculty at the University of Warwick in Coventry,

England and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy). Speakers in the spring lecture series include Travis Bruce, Visiting Assistant Professor at CEMERS, Olivia Remie Constable, Professor of History and Director of the

Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and Daniel Smail, Professor of History at Harvard University. For additional information about spring events, visit our website (www.cemers.binghamton.edu).

AcknowledgmentsMany campus centers and programs helped to make this conference possible. CEMERS acknowledges the generous support of the following: The Office of the Provost, the Harpur College Speakers Fund, the Aldo and Reta Bernardo

Fund, the Departments of Art History, Asian and Asian American Studies, Classical & Near Eastern Studies, Economics, English, History, Judaic Studies, and Political Science, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, the Fernand

Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and the Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas. Off-campus supporters include WSKG Public Television, the Teacher Center of Broome County, and the

Société Internationale des Historiens de la Méditerranée.

We would also like to thank Heather Allen, Catherine Dolber, Diana Dutan, Lalaine Little, Meisha Lohman, and Dale Tomich for their assistance. Special thanks to Joe Laskaris, Danielle Rogers, and Barbara Knighton for their

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Marilynn Desmond (English) Jonathan Karp (Judaic Studies)

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